2-1-Q

Two specific details that stuck out to me was the mother not being afraid about the afterlife, but more of death. “My mother was not afraid of the afterlife: like most Jews she had only vague and hazy sense of what might lie beyond the grave, and she gave it very little thought. It was death itself-simply ceasing to be-that terrified her” (Pg 3 Ch 3). I find it interesting because later on you find her reasoning to her outburst in public was her way of mourning the loss of her sister. “They seem to have taken root about a decade before my birth, when her younger sister, only sixteen years old, died of strep throat” (Pg 4 Ch 1). After his aunt’s death not only did it affect the mother but the son for the way she mourns her death in public. Why I believe there is some self connection in this is I believe when everyone get’s an unexpected death rather than someone passing of old age, it can play an effect the family in a big way. The people get remembered more, and not only that they always show a way to remember the person. My question is why do we learn about the reader so much in then go directly into the book?